Quotes of Strain - somelinesforyou

“ Take up the White Man's burden — send forth the best ye breed — go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ In times of stress and strain, people will vote. ”

- Unknown

“ It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. ”

- Pete Seeger

“ We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing,... We should be cutting taxes by reducing the level of spending and that's an issue that I think is critically on the table. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary. ”

- David Hume

“ I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Only time conquers time and its burdens. ”

- Dean Koontz

“ I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music. ”

- Neil Finn

“ I think a good song is a good song is a good song. ”

- Tim Finn

“ Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. ”

- Sting

“ In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual. ”

- Unknown

“ I know only two tunes. One them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't. ”

- Ulysses S. Grant

“ The history of a people is found in its songs. ”

- George Jellinek

“ There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Without music, life would be a mistake. The German imagines even God singing songs. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. ”

- Florence King

“ Believe it or not, it's my signature song, 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco,' because it's given me a license to sing all the great songs that I could sing. ”

- Tony Benn

“ Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ”

- Margaret Mitchell

“ What's the difference between the music of my generation and todays? Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring. ”

- David A. Vigilanti

“ If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss. ”

- Kirk Kirkpatrick

“ Don't Stress the Small Stuff — and it's all small stuff. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ It's important to stress that they competed and were awarded these contracts. They weren't just given to Performa. ”

- Mark Green

“ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? ”

- Bible

“ More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a serious actress entails. ”

- Cher

“ The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. - Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare
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